Toledo Zoo Amphitheater, June 1996 The zoo is a crazy place for a rock concert, but for the Tragically Hip, this Depression-era amphitheater was perfect. And this was years before Gord Downie sang about Gus, the polar bear in Central Park (In Between Evolution, 2004). I like to think that the Toledo Zoo was his… Continue reading Long Live Rock: The Tragically Hip
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Long Live Rock: Dougie MacLean
The Ark, Ann Arbor, circa 1996 Another concert with Tim, who was in grad school at Michigan by this point. Dougie was fantastic -- The Ark is an intimate venue, and as I remember it, we were sitting just a row or two from the stage. I watched transfixed as Dougie tuned his guitar differently… Continue reading Long Live Rock: Dougie MacLean
Long Live Rock: The Indigo Girls
I'm not quite finished with the concerts of the nineties yet, though from here on out I'll be jumping around chronologically, as I remember the shows. And here is one I can't believe I almost forgot: Indigo Girls, Toledo, 1995 Two things I remember about this show, maybe three. (1) I went with Tim, my… Continue reading Long Live Rock: The Indigo Girls
More of the Cereal Box Wall
Eventually the cereal box wall had to come down. I wish I had a picture of that sight but I don't. It was a mountain of empty cereal boxes, hundreds of them on my dining room floor in the sad little Pheasant Run apartment complex, where I could see and hear the four lanes of… Continue reading More of the Cereal Box Wall
The Cereal Box Wall
I used to eat a lot of cereal. A lot. Three or four bowls a morning, every morning at 6am just before I went off to teach the teeming hordes of America's youth at an all boy's Jesuit high school. At one point I got sick of throwing out all those cereal boxes--this was 1995,… Continue reading The Cereal Box Wall